MSIT’s Sergey Zhuravlev (9 kills, 5 digs, 4 blocks) shared a block with setter David Ngo (19 assists, 8 points, 7 digs, 2 blocks) to break a tie at 23 in the final set, but the score quickly changed to another tie when the Sea Gulls served a ball into the net. That’s when MSIT regrouped and Ngo fed Zhuravlev back-to-back kills from the middle to take the match.

“We got a few more balls off the net,” said MSIT coach Dave Mahon, who was missing hittter Andy Wu from a minor back sprain but is hoping he’ll be ready by Saturday. “We also got some calls down that we didn’t get in the second.

“They cleaned things up,” said Mahon of Brooklyn Tech, a squad his Sea Gulls faced a few times during the season. “They kept playing point for point.”

The Sea Gulls literally ran into a wall in the second set when Young Lee served a six-point run while his teammates dropped three blocks in between. MSIT never led in the set, even with solid production from Ngo and hitters Stephen Leong (6 points, 5 digs, 2 kills) and Marcos Saavedra (7 digs, 5 kills, 4 points, 3 blocks) and non-stop digging by the Sea Gulls. The Engineers finished with nine blocks in the set.

MSIT had a 5-0 lead in the first, thanks to steady service from Austen Rerick (eight points, seven digs) and Ngo easily connected with hitters Saavedra, Alex Brion (three kills, three digs) and Zhuravlev.